Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-10-22
GOVERNOR zULICKS ADDRESS.
A G Owing tribute tO Arizona's
 Wealth Of Resources.

In his opening address at the Arizona Industral Exposition in Phenix, Cover nor c. Meyer Zulick paid the following truthful tribute to Arlzona's greatness:
 Arlzona IS no insignificant part of the United States. in area sile IS an empire. Ali ot the New England States with New York and New Jersey combined only equal her i'll square miles of Terri tory. Her agrlcul, ural and horticultural land exceeds III acreage the entire area ot either of the great States of Indiana,
 Virginia, Kentucky or Ohio. Her citrus fruit belt, stretching from Yuma to the mount tain ranges of Pima, a distance of 200 miles in length by l25 miles in width contains 15, GOO, ,000 acres of land, upon
 winch will grow by irrigation, the orange, | lemon, lime, banana, fig, olive, date and raisin grape. Every requirement of soil and climate here exists, to render 1t one of the richest citrus and semi tropical
 fruit districts in the world.
 With virgin soil enriched by the 1 debris of vegetation ot centuries, it pos
 sesses all the necessary elements of vege-
 table nutrition to yield abundant and
 profitable crops without the aid of artif-
 cial fertilizations save the application of water; it needs only to tickle it with
 hoe and it. will laugh with harvest. | Nowhere on this continent can there be
 found richer lands, with greater produc-
 ing capacity than in the valleys of the Colorado, Salt; Gila, San Pedro, Santa Cruz and Verde rivers. To reclaim these
 now desert lands, and make them yield
 abundantly in profitable crops, there is
 needed an elaborate and perfect system
 of irrigation; already there have been l constr ucted in Arizona some 400 miles of | irrigating canals at & total cost of over SI. .0O0, GOO which should reclaim about 215, 900 acres of land, yet we have scar
 cely commenced. We greatly need and
 richly deserve Federal aid by an appro-
 priaGion for hydrographc survey with a
 view to obtaining water by storage reser-
 voirs in the mountain sheds and test the
 utility of artesian wells for the same pur-
 pose Tn the valleys. The Government
 can put to no better use part of the un-
 warranted and surplus revenues which by
 an oppressive war tariff have been taken
 from the people and hoarded in the
 United States Treasury vaults than ex-
 pend it in the reclamation of desert | l2DQS, tHus dtNhiiiS dSTlcullu di lIit0TcStS As your executive 1 have urged in my
 annnal report, and am not without hope
 that Congress will look favorably upon
 ihis reasonable request
 Nature has nos confined Arizona to the
 sole resources of agriculture; with prodi
 gal hand she has scanned her mountains ' with precious minerals of every kinG
 known to science. From the northern
 line at Utah to the south ern extreme a Sonora, gold, silver and copper ar, , found hidden in every mountain side
 millions of dollars of precious metals art hually produced as Arizona's outpu and contribution of nietaliferous wealth = Mining camps are dotted all over tn,
 Territory and the music of hammer anC
 drill keep tims with the steady step O , the prospector as he uneart hs the bidder ] treasures. Thls great and fourishin t industry is still iu it's infancy; we ar
 practically only prospecting at the ''gras
 roots" while our great ore bodies are ye
 undisturbed. Like agriculture it ha
 experienced draw backs; without facilitie -for esssnsperi ? ton, far removed from tb smelters of California and Colorado, an, :, with exorbitant freights high grade ore - have only been worked. Now that tn
 freight car IS at our door, sampling work erected m our midst, freghts reduced t, U a fair standpoint, new impetus ha
 been given to inning and the annua 5 yield will steadily increase and Arizon !. take the lead as one of the greatest pro 7 7 ducers of bullion of any of the States 0 Territories.
 g Another great leading industry ant ! source of wealth in Arizona is her stocl growing. With pastural lands equal il :, area to all New England, hundreds of e q thousands of cattle roam over the grass plains, valleys and hillsides, fattenin! and increasing, free from epidemic dis
 eases and loss from severe climatic chang u es. while the Texas stockmen have thei herds decimated by drought, and the cat : tie of Montana and Wyoming have per ' ished by the thousands from cold an,
 hunger, our herds have improved, an,
 the loss from these causes have bee
 merely nominal. With abundance c
 nutritious grasses and our eouabl y climate, stock roam on the ranges the en Y tire year with perfect security. needing U no additional food. With sound sanitar . laws and able and honest Board of Liv :. Stock Sanitary Commissioners to SC . them enforced, this great, growing an . prosperous industry is fully protecte Il against the introduction of contagiou
 diseases amongst its herds.
 We have forests and timber tracts GOV ering as many square miles as Connect cut, New Jersey and Delaware com v bined, and we have coal m ines which wi . produce an excellent quality of fuel fo ; domestic and manufacturing purposes. 'i We have climate free from the heav ~ fogs, damp winds and severe colds ths !, in other lands render life almost burde IT and enjoy the luxury of 6 dry, pure an T bracing atmosphere with plenty of sur ] ! shine and clear skies What more coul {" nature do for any land7 She has bee 10 lavish in the distribution of her favor With abundance of land, fertility an r' prolificness of soil, perfect climate, plent n of lumber, fuel and water, untold mi '' lions of wealth in her mines, what ca
 retard the progress of Arizona? H,
 people are brave, intelligent, genero, l, and progressive. maintaining a comple N' svsien, Ot Duhlic education ,nalxin0 F